Mid hriff is an occasional poetry mag I edited and printed this summer. To mark my 50th birthday, I asked some friends and age peers whose work vitalizes me to send me poems that have something to do with the experience of middle life. Mid hriff “is Robert Duncan’s riff on “midriff” in “The Torso: Passages 18. If you'd like a copy send me a message.
Precious against a Precious Thing
The Selected Poems of Michael Field
Foreword by Stacy Szymaszek
In her foreword, poet Stacy Szymaszek writes, “Field’s work is organized around body logic—experience, making a spectacle of one’s own life, beauty and giving pleasure. In the grips of our current political disaster, it may not carry a lot of weight to think one’s work it important for such things. Yet work that excites my mind-body helps remind me that I am an erotic being. When I proceed through life as my best erotic self, I am harder for the law to control, i.e., making a spectacle of myself, others can see me. There is always the hope that Emily Dickinson expressed: “Are you nobody too?” I step out of convention for community, and that action is the enemy of fascism.”
Broadside from Belladonna
“The Deer Are Eating the Pumpkins”by Stacy Szymaszek
Screen print, 12 x 18″
Limited edition of 100
Designed and printed by Lane Sell, Shoestring Press for Belladonna* Series, March 2019